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Cheap : the High Cost of Discount Culture
Format:
Book
Title:
Cheap : the High Cost of Discount Culture
ISBN:
9781594202155
Publication:
New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
xix, 296 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Discount nation -- The founding fathers -- Winner take nothing -- The outlet gambit -- Markdown madness -- Death of a craftsman -- Discounting and its discontents -- Cheap eats -- The double headed dragon -- The perfect price.
Summary:
An Atlantic correspondent uncovers the true cost--in economic, political, and psychic terms--of our penchant for making and buying things as cheaply as possible, providing evidence that "buying cheap" has resulted in a host of socioeconomic ills that include a blighted landscape, escalating debt (both personal and national), stagnating incomes, and fraying communities.
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